Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleruchs
Literary usage of Cleruchs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens by Evelyn Abbott (1892)
"War with Sparta-—Athenian expeditions round the Peloponnesus—Disasters in
Egypt—cleruchs— Truce with Sparta for five years—Expedition to Cyprus—Death of ..."
2. The Constitutional Antiquities of Sparta and Athens by Gustav Gilbert (1895)
"Total, 8950 or 9950 cleruchs, to which must be added others sent within the same
... I infer that the cleruchs received money grants to stock their farms ..."
3. Thucydides, book VII by Thucydides, Edgar Cardew Marchant (1893)
"Lemnos and Imbros were secured for Athenian cleruchs by Miltiades ; and these
two with Scyros were regarded as very peculiarly the possessions of the A. in ..."
4. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and by Herodotus (1862)
"The cleruchs were a military garrison planted in a conquered territory, ...
This is the first known instance of Athenian cleruchs: afterwards they became ..."
5. The Hibeh Papyri by Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt, Eric Gardner Turner (1906)
"OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING cleruchs. Mummy 98. 28-8 χ 25-8 cm. BC 238 ().
This papyrus and the next both belong to the correspondence of Asclepiades ..."
6. Revenue Laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus by Ptolemy, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, John Pentland Mahaffy (1896)
"132) that the cleruchs in PP were, at any rate nominally, active soldiers, and
not mere pensioners : cf. PP xxxi. 5-6. 8. ..."
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